---
title: 'Jaeger'
description: 'Configure Jaeger as an observability destination for AI applications'
---

Send AI observability data to Jaeger for open-source distributed tracing. Jaeger provides excellent trace visualization and search capabilities for AI applications and workflows.

## 🚀 Quick Setup

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  <Tab title="Operator">
    **For Kubernetes deployments with zero-code instrumentation:**
    
    <snippet file="destination-operator-config.mdx" args='{
      "name": "jaeger",
      "endpoint": "http://jaeger-collector.observability:4318",
      "headers": "",
      "environment": "production",
      "service_name": "my-ai-service"
    }' />
  </Tab>
  
  <Tab title="SDK">
    **For direct integration into your Python applications:**
    
    <snippet file="destination-sdk-config.mdx" args='{
      "endpoint": "http://jaeger-collector:4318",
      "headers": {}
    }' />
  </Tab>
  
  <Tab title="CLI">
    **For auto-instrumentation via command line:**
    
    <snippet file="destination-cli-config.mdx" args='{
      "endpoint": "http://jaeger-collector:4318",
      "headers": "",
      "service_name": "my-ai-service"
    }' />
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

<snippet file="destinations/jaeger-setup.mdx" />

<snippet file="destination-verification.mdx" args='{"endpoint": "http://jaeger-collector:4318", "headers": ""}' />

<snippet file="destination-troubleshooting.mdx" args='{"destination_name": "Jaeger", "endpoint": "http://jaeger-collector:4318", "headers": "", "host": "jaeger-collector"}' />

## 📖 Additional Resources

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  <Card title="📊 Jaeger Documentation" href="https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/" icon="book">
    Jaeger official documentation  
  </Card>
  <Card title="🔧 OpenTelemetry Setup" href="https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/opentelemetry/" icon="gear">
    OpenTelemetry integration guide
  </Card>
  <Card title="🎯 OpenLIT GitHub" href="https://github.com/openlit/openlit" icon="github">
    OpenLIT source code and examples
  </Card>
  <Card title="💬 Community" href="https://github.com/openlit/openlit/discussions" icon="messages">
    Get help and share experiences
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
